Proverbs 4:23

1
A Condition of the Heart

• Proverbs 423

2
Proverbs 423-25

• 23 Above all else, guard your heart, for it is
  the wellspring of life. 24 Put away perversity
  from your mouth keep corrupt talk far from your
  lips. 25 Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix
  your gaze directly before you. (NIV)
• 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of
  it are the issues of life. 24 Put away from thee
  a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from
  thee. 25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let
  thine eyelids look straight before thee. (KJV)
• Heart center or seat of our spiritual life
• Wellsprings head waters Great Lakes to the
  Gulf of
• Mexico

3
2 Chronicles 252-3
Divided heart

• 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD,
  but not wholeheartedly. 3 After the kingdom was
  firmly in his control, he executed the officials
  who had murdered his father the king.

4
Jeremiah 310-12
Pretentious heart

• 10 In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister
  Judah did not return to me with all her heart,
  but only in pretense," declares the LORD. 11 The
  LORD said to me, "Faithless Israel is more
  righteous than unfaithful Judah. 12 Go, proclaim
  this message toward the north "'Return,
  faithless Israel,' declares the LORD, 'I will
  frown on you no longer, for I am merciful,'
  declares the LORD, 'I will not be angry forever.

5
Matthew 1315
Calloused heart

• 13 This is why I speak to them in parables
  "Though seeing, they do not see though hearing,
  they do not hear or understand. 14 In them is
  fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah "'You will be
  ever hearing but never understanding you will be
  ever seeing but never perceiving. 15 For this
  people's heart has become calloused they hardly
  hear with their ears, and they have closed their
  eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
  hear with their ears, understand with their
  hearts and turn, and I would heal them.' 16 But
  blessed are your eyes because they see, and your
  ears because they hear. (NIV)

6
Matthew 1315
Calloused heart

• 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables because
  they seeing see not and hearing they hear not,
  neither do they understand. 14 And in them is
  fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By
  hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand
  and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive
  15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and
  their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes
  they have closed lest at any time they should
  see with their eyes, and hear with their ears,
  and should understand with their heart, and
  should be converted, and I should heal them. 16
  But blessed are your eyes, for they see and your
  ears, for they hear. (KJV)

7
Ezekiel 1117-20

• 17 "Therefore say 'This is what the Sovereign
  LORD says I will gather you from the nations and
  bring you back from the countries where you have
  been scattered, and I will give you back the land
  of Israel again.' 18 "They will return to it and
  remove all its vile images and detestable idols.
  19 I will give them an undivided heart and put a
  new spirit in them I will remove from them their
  heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. 20
  Then they will follow my decrees and be careful
  to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I
  will be their God.